Paul Williams Quotes
I'm still on an adventure but it's more without a goal then it was in the earlier years. I'm letting myself be led to the places I think I want to go.
Quotes to Explore
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If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I don't take myself too seriously.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.
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I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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I've sold a lot of records. Did I keep other artists from eating?
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I'm still on an adventure but it's more without a goal then it was in the earlier years. I'm letting myself be led to the places I think I want to go.
